ABC Announces Pricing of Previously Announced Financing Transactions

TORONTO–()–ABC Technologies Holdings Inc. (TSX: ABCT) (“ABC Technologies”, “ABC” or the “Company”), a leading manufacturer and supplier of custom, highly engineered technical plastics and lightweighting innovations to the global automotive industry, today announced pricing of its previously announced private placement and rights offering which are intended to finance the acquisition of dlhBowles, Inc. from MPE Partners, L.P. for approximately US$255 million (the “dlhB Acquisition”). The Company has received the conditional listing approval of the Toronto Stock Exchange (“TSX”) for both transactions.

Further details relating to the dlhB Acquisition are provided in a separate press release issued by the Company on January 5, 2022.

Private Placement

In order to finance the dlhB Acquisition, the Company entered into subscription agreements with each of AP IX Alpha Holdings (Lux) S.à.r.l, the Company’s controlling shareholder (“AP IX Alpha”) and a fund managed by affiliates of Apollo Global Management, Inc. (together with AP IX Alpha, the “Apollo Funds” or “Apollo”), and funds managed directly or indirectly by Oaktree Capital Management, L.P. (“Oaktree”), OCM Luxembourg OPPS XI S.à.r.l. (“OPPS XI”) and OCM Luxembourg OPPS XB S.à.r.l. (“OPPS XB”, and together with OPPS XI, the “Oaktree Funds”), pursuant to which the Apollo Funds and the Oaktree Funds will subscribe for an aggregate of 5,253,642…

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